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deep; aperture vinous brown, with band, peristome white-lipped, 

 margins remote, expanded above but scarcely reflected, basal and 

 columellar margins more reflected. Diam. 25 mill. 



Mt. Presolano, N. Italy. 



Var. LIGURICA, Kobelt. PL 27, fig. 4. 



Smaller, last whorl less dilated, aperture rounded. 

 Diam. 20 mill. 



H. FRIGIDA, Jan. PI. 24, figs. 25-27. 



Openly moderately umbilicated, planospiral, solid, ashy white; 

 whorls 5, convex,, the last scarcely descending in front, subcom- 

 pressed around the umbilicus ; aperture brownish, peristome white- 

 lipped, margins distant. Diam. 21 mill. 



A Ips of Northern Italy. 



Var. IXSUBRICA, Crist, et Jan. PI. 27, fig. 28, PI. 23, fig. 17. 

 Smaller, single banded. Diam. 18 mill. 

 H. Bertelliana, and H. frigidissima, Adami, (fig. 17) are synonyms. 



H. NICATIS, Costa. PL 23, fig. 18. 



Kather widely umbilicated, somewhat solid, subarcuately striate, 

 a little shining, whitish, with obsolete corneous maculations, spire 

 subplane, suture impressed ; whorls 5, somewhat flattened, the last 

 with a light chestnut band above the middle, scarcely descending 

 in front, base more convex ; aperture brownish flesh color, peristome 

 simple, reflected basally, margins joining. Diam. 20 mill, 



Mt. Nicatis, Naples. 



H. CHAMAELEON, Parr. PL 28, figs. 28-30. 



Narrowly umbilicated, somewhat solid, obliquely striate, with 

 impressed spiral lines above, closer at the periphery, brownish, 

 dotted with white, with a chestnut, white-margined periphery band, 

 marbled with chestnut and white below, whorls 5, barely convex 

 above, the last more convex below, scarcely descending in front ; 

 peristome labiate, margins converging, shortly expanded above, 

 subflexuous, basally reflected. Diam. 19 mill. 



Near Malborghet, Carinthia. 



Kobelt considers this possibly a variety of H. jyhalerata. 



H. OLYMPICA, Roth. PL 28, figs. 19-21. 



Umbilicated, striate, whitish, with a single narrow chestnut band, 

 epidermis deciduous ; whorls 5, rounded, the last descending at the 



